Living In a Liquid Word

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Living In a Liquid Word

LIVING IN A LIQUID WORLD

 

A toe in the water,

lapping cold,

The ocean, the seaside of danger.

A crystal blue

surface serene

The cool breathe of God,

splashing your face,

a seaside breeze.

Below the calm, fathoms of unknown,

predatory dark hiding,

the hunters and the hunted,

and we dive into India ink darkness.

 

We tread in the element we cannot master.

Up to the waist,

Connected to the sand as it squishes through your toes,

until it drops off.

Davy Jones Locker,

Deep and invisible

And we are foreign.

We can master the technology,

But we can’t master the sea,

we don’t belong…

Except to put a toe into the water.

 

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photochick commented on Living In a Liquid Word

09-02-2009

very nice rhythm and flow vivid imagery you got alot of talent in you thats for sure i was hooked form the first line to the last keep up the great writes

charlpntr

09/04/2009

Thanks...I appreciate the read and nice comments...I'd love to read some of yours if you'd care to share them.

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

charlpntr’s Poems (14)

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ding Still
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Margins 0
ALONE 1
Cold World 1
Mona Lisa 1
TWO SIDES 0
REAL 0
THE MUSE 0
Living In a Liquid Word 1
Still Life 1
The Sensation of Speed 1
OLD MEN CAN TIME TRAVEL 0
A Coiled Knot 0
ARC OF THE ARROW 1